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What Gun Powders are ACTUALLY manufactured in the United States ?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jud96" data-source="post: 2181961" data-attributes="member: 69478"><p>Yes the technologies we have now in manufacturing, I think a true state of the art smokeless powder facility could be built right here in the States and set the standard for the rest of the world. There have been so many advancements in the industry utilizing CNC machines and high tech components and electronics, that you could really use it to make super grade powder. I think the biggest things would be getting very tight tolerances on burn rate, kernel size and shape, and consistent coatings from lot to lot. The technology to make clean, temp stable, high energy, stick powders is out there and being used, but there always seems to be something missing from each one. For example, one powder is very temp stable, but it's bulky or it's low energy and doesn't get peak performance for its burn rate. Or a powder is very clean burning and fills the case nicely, but has horrible lot to lot consistency. If you could build a manufacturing facility hyper focused on quality and consistency and use it to make like six different powders from H4198 burn rate up through Retumbo. Focus efforts on controlling every lot to be as close to the next and engineer the powders to be clean burning, temperature stable, small kernels to fill cases well, and still be able to make good velocity for their class. I think that would be revolutionary. We don't need 30 different burn rates for long range hunting/shooting. A few can cover a lot. We wouldn't have to deal with the powders being produced and shipped here from halfway across the world and with only a few burn rates, the powders could be produced faster and have more on the shelf for the consumer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jud96, post: 2181961, member: 69478"] Yes the technologies we have now in manufacturing, I think a true state of the art smokeless powder facility could be built right here in the States and set the standard for the rest of the world. There have been so many advancements in the industry utilizing CNC machines and high tech components and electronics, that you could really use it to make super grade powder. I think the biggest things would be getting very tight tolerances on burn rate, kernel size and shape, and consistent coatings from lot to lot. The technology to make clean, temp stable, high energy, stick powders is out there and being used, but there always seems to be something missing from each one. For example, one powder is very temp stable, but it’s bulky or it’s low energy and doesn’t get peak performance for its burn rate. Or a powder is very clean burning and fills the case nicely, but has horrible lot to lot consistency. If you could build a manufacturing facility hyper focused on quality and consistency and use it to make like six different powders from H4198 burn rate up through Retumbo. Focus efforts on controlling every lot to be as close to the next and engineer the powders to be clean burning, temperature stable, small kernels to fill cases well, and still be able to make good velocity for their class. I think that would be revolutionary. We don’t need 30 different burn rates for long range hunting/shooting. A few can cover a lot. We wouldn’t have to deal with the powders being produced and shipped here from halfway across the world and with only a few burn rates, the powders could be produced faster and have more on the shelf for the consumer. [/QUOTE]
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